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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
from the left: Luigi Pestalozza and Luigi Nono	Ciminaghi, Luigi	FOTO03260	1968
Alberto Zedda presents the critical edition of 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia', Milan, Ricordi offices in Via Berchet	Liverani, Vito	FOTO02952	06/12/1969
Catania: Doorway of the Vincenzo Bellini's birthplace	Sciacca	FOTO02160	1970
Renzo Rossellini	De Grab, Richard	FOTO02514	1970
L'Idiota, by Luciano Chailly, a scene	Agenzia Dufoto	FOTO02616	1970
Alexander Bogatyrev and Natalia Bessmertnova in the roles of Romeo and Juliet	Pedencuk, L.	FOTO03242	1970
Ballet, stage photo	Smith, Mark Edward	FOTO03245	1970
Fröken Julie, ballet, stage photo	Bergstrom, Beata	FOTO03247	1970
Noella Pontois and Charles Jude in the ballet Suite en blanc	Masson, Coilette	FOTO03248	1970
Karl Böhm	Lauterwasser, Siegfried	FOTO03297	1970