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Photographs

Collection

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

On focus

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
Filippo Ivaldi	Spirescu	FOTO00633	1904
Claudio P.Landi	Chadbourn	FOTO02755	1905
Luigi Vella	Malta Photographic Company	FOTO02974	1905
Giuseppina Grassi Gargiulo	Bressan, A.M.	FOTO00611	1906
Giacomo Puccini and the soprano Elsa Szamosi on the stage of the Royal Opera Theatre in Budapest, after the Hungarian premiere of Madama Butterfly, 12 May 1906	Kossak	FOTO01072	1906
Gustav Mahler in the office of Santa Cecilia's Manager	Abéniacar, Charles	FOTO02601	1907
Gustav Mahler visit Rome	Abéniacar, Charles	FOTO02602	1907
Enrico Caruso leaving New York	MTB	FOTO00223	1907
Francesco Paolo Tosti with is wife Berthe Pierson in the garden of "Convento Michetti" (Cenacolo michettiano), Francavilla al Mare	Michetti, Francesco Paolo	FOTO01518	1908
Enrico Molaschi, il 'Barbapedana'	Torrani, Michele	FOTO02284	1908