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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
Edith De Lys in stage costume	Rude & Hilfling	FOTO03089	1908
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
Medea Figner	Pietzner, Carl	FOTO00449	1908
Don Giocondo Fino	Nunes Vais, Mario	FOTO00452	1908
Bruto Martelli	Solza, F.	FOTO00712	1908
Marcelle Reville in the role of Tosca, Act 1, Naples, Teatro San Carlo, 1908	Reutlinger, Charles	FOTO00954	1908
Victorien Sardou	Bert	FOTO02701	1908
Zorah Dorly	Boissonnas, Frédéric	FOTO02723	1908
Schola cantorum in Terra Santa, choral director M° P.A.Frapiccini. Jerusalem 21 April 1908	Gassi, A.	FOTO02867	1908