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We don't know. The earliest existing examples - the treatises Musica enchiriadis and Scolica enchiriadis - date from the ninth century AD, but both were written anonymously. The earliest polyphony composers that we do know are twelfth-century composers Léonin and Pérotin.

Polyphony finally developed into the Fugue, a form not invented but made most famous by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is known as the father of polyphonic music.

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Josquin des Prez is considered to be the first master of the high Renaissance style of polyphonic vocal music.

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