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
Pinewood of Ravenna	Ricci, Luigi	FOTO02408	1872
Giuseppe Verdi and the first singers of Messa da Requiem:Teresa Stolz, Maria Waldmann, Ormondo Maini e Giuseppe Capponi	Diotallevi, Augusto	FOTO02821	1874
Saverio Mercadante, portrait, in Altamura	D'Alesio, Antonio	FOTO02770	1895
Monument to Giovan Battista Bottero by O. Tabacchi, Turin	Cianotto & Filippi	FOTO00158	1899
Giuseppe Verdi's funeral at cimitero Monumentale, Milan, January 30th 1901	Foli, A.	FOTO01267	30/01/1901
Milan, Largo Cairoli. Funeral Translation of the coffins of Giuseppe Verdi and Giuseppina Strepponi from Cimitero Monumentale to Casa di Riposo	Guigoni & Bossi	FOTO01270	27/02/1901
Davide Gentilli	Benque, Francesco	FOTO02689	1902
Monument offered by City of Turin to Vittorio Alfieri	Penna, F.	FOTO02223	1903
Bust of Hector Berlioz by Urban Basset in Monte Carlo	A.T.	FOTO02593	1903