Deutsche Grammophon

In my rankings of composers' legacies based on number of recordings at ArkivMusic.com, there was a serious flaw I noticed almost right away. That is, a composer who composed a famous song (such as Rachmaninov's Vocalise, Schubert's Ave Maria, Gounod's Ave Maria, and many composers' opera arias) would have an inflated total due to the multitude of compilation albums including only that one song by that composer; this, while many CDs contain over an hour of music by a single composer.

Deutsche Grammophon is one of the largest classical music record labels in the world. Also, they do not release many compilation CDs that would tend to give the previously described advantage to minor opera composers and other composers of "hit songs." The following list ranks composers' legacies, as determined by number of CDs in the current Deutsche Grammophon catalog. This list corrects a few errors from before but also surely has some of its own.

1. Mozart 310
   
2. Beethoven 261
   
3. Bach 170
   
4. Brahms 116
   
5. Schubert 106
   
6. Tchaikovsky 82
   
7. Handel 79
   
8. Mahler 72
   
9. Schumann 69
   
10. Verdi 69
    
11. Wagner 67
    
12. Strauss 66
    
13. Haydn 63
    
14. Chopin 62
    
15. Vivaldi 42
    
16. Dvorak 41
    
17. Ravel 41
    
18. Stravinsky 41
    
19. Mendelssohn 38
    
20. Bruckner 36
    
21. Prokofiev 35
    
22. Debussy 34
    
23. Liszt 32
    
24. Shostakovich 31
    
25. Puccini 28
    
26. Sibelius 28
    
27. Rachmaninov 27
    
28. Bartok 26
    
29. Rossini 25
    
30. Berlioz 23
    
31. Grieg 20
    
32. Strauss II 18
    
33. Messiaen 17
    
34. Saint-Saens 17
    
35. Bizet 16
    
36. Berg 15
    
37. Smetana 15
    
38. Mussorgsky 14
    
39. Paganini 14
    
40. Schoenberg 14
    
41. Monteverdi 13
    
42. Purcell 13
    
43. Bernstein 12
    
44. Elgar 12
    
45. Henze 12
    
46. Orff 12
    
47. Donizetti 11
    
48. Telemann 11
    
49. Webern 11
    
50. Boulez 10