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
Victorien Sardou in the park of his mansion house in Marly-le-Roi. In the photograph: son-in-law Robert De Flers, the daughter Genevieve and the nephew	Argus Photo Reportage	FOTO02648	1903
Club mandolinistico veronese	Poli, Giuseppe	FOTO03073	1903
Don Lorenzo Perosi	Bonaventura e Scagliotti	FOTO03279	1905
London: Dinner at the Pagani restaurant on the occasion of the premiere Madama Butterfly, among those present: Tito II Ricordi, Enrico Caruso, Francesco Paolo Tosti, Cleofonte Campanini and his wife Eva Tetrazzini, Antonio Scotti, André Messager	Fradelle & Young	FOTO01996	10/07/1905
Supper Party given at the Savoy Hotel in London to M°Giacomo Puccini, 24 October 1905. In the foreground the conductor Leopoldo Mugnone	Fradelle & Young	FOTO01997	24/10/1905
Mahler's concert, rehearsal	Abéniacar, Charles	FOTO02603	1907
Drama authors commission in Hotel Bristol in Genoa. From the left: Gerolamo Rovetta, Marco Praga, Giannino Antona Traversi, Augusto Novelli, Domenico Oliva, Renato Simoni, Sabatino Lopez	Sciutto, Giovanni Battista	FOTO00900	1907
M° Francesco Spetrino, Baron Angelo Eisner Eisenhof and Giacomo Puccini at the entrance of the Imperial Theater, Vienna, 1907	Ehrbar, Fritz	FOTO02829	1907
Trip to Como in occasion of 100 year anniversary of Casa Ricordi. At the center: Giulio Ricordi	Scaramella	FOTO03093	1908
Schola cantorum in Terra Santa, choral director M° P.A.Frapiccini. Jerusalem 21 April 1908	Gassi, A.	FOTO02867	1908