Archivio Storico Ricordi | Collezione Digitale

The Photographic Collection of the Archivio Storico Ricordi originated during the second half of the 1800s and covers the whole of the 1900s, counting thousands of items thanks mainly to the interest shown by Giulio Ricordi for this new artform. Photography had become an increasingly indispensable medium within an editor’s production system, as evidenced by Casa Ricordi’s early periodicals such as Musica e Musicisti and Ars et Labor. This section includes a list of the nearly 900 photographic studios that collaborated with Ricordi, including many of the national and international big names in photography.

The luthier Luigi Paganini with M°Archimede Montanelli and the little Balilla, photograph by Battista Canè, Forlì, early 1900s

Giuseppe Verdi davanti alla casa di Giulio Ricordi

Achille Ferrario

Giacomo Puccini

Attilio Badodi

Sarah Bernhardt nel ruolo di Tosca

Félix Nadar

Ottorino Respighi

Ghitta Carell

Ella Fitzgerald

Ugo Mulas

Daria Farini

London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company Ltd.

Description	Author	ID	Date
Luigi Monti	Grillet & C.	FOTO02587	1861
Pietro Platania	Martinez, Luigi	FOTO00877	1890
Maestro Josè Campabadal y Calvet	Paynter Bros	FOTO00187	1890
Davide Gentilli	Benque, Francesco	FOTO02689	1902
Maria La Pia Baldini	Reutz & Schrader, H.	FOTO00657	1907
Trip to Como in occasion of 100 year anniversary of Casa Ricordi. At the center: Giulio Ricordi	Scaramella	FOTO03093	1908
Trip to Como in occasion of 100 year anniversary of Casa Ricordi. From the left: Manolo, Luigi, Tito II, Giulio Ricordi with nephew Giulia, Signora Carla	Scaramella	FOTO03094	1908
Costantino Gaito	Sudak, L.	FOTO01991	1937
Luciano Gilio and his accordion	Foto Gedda	FOTO02861	1949
Ricordi Store, Milan, Via Berchet, interior	Aragozzini, Vincenzo	FOTO02640	1950