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

Description	Author	ID	Date
Giuseppe Verdi and the first singers of Messa da Requiem:Teresa Stolz, Maria Waldmann, Ormondo Maini e Giuseppe Capponi	Diotallevi, Augusto	FOTO02821	1874
from the left: Giulio Ricordi, Arrigo Boito, Giuseppe Verdi, seated in the house of Ricordi, Via Borgonuovo 14, Milan	Ferrario, Achille	FOTO01265	1892
Luigi Paganini, M° Archimede Montanelli and the little Balilla	Canè, Battista	FOTO02744	1894
Ricordo dei Grandi Concerti del Liceo Rossini: conductor Pietro Mascagni	Foto Artistica Milanese	FOTO02006	1899
Villa Verdi, Sant'Agata di Busseto: (from the left, seated) Maria Carrara Verdi, Barberina Strepponi, Giuseppe Verdi, Giuditta Ricordi; (from the left, standing) Teresa Stolz, Umberto Campanari, Giulio Ricordi, Leopoldo Metlicovitz	Rossi, Giulio	FOTO01272	1900
Giacomo Puccini and the guests at the lunch offered in the Restaurant Righi of Genoa after the last staging of Tosca in his	Testa, Achille	FOTO01992	20/05/1900
Ottorino Respighi at Liceo Musicale di Bologna, 1901	Lanzoni, Luigi	FOTO01971	1901
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
P. De Bengardi with his family	Valleto	FOTO03141	1902