Spem in alium
1570
Forty separate voices in eight choirs of five, all of them independent, and at one point every single one sings at once.
★ 3.6
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Ave Maria
1502
The printer Ottaviano Petrucci issued it in 1502, in the first book of polyphony ever set in movable type. Four voices enter one at a time.
★ 3.3