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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
Artists of 'Giuseppe Verdi' rest house in Milan on front of Verdi's grave.	Farabola	FOTO02521	1950
Concert set by Casa Ricordi in the Pinacoteca di Brera hall, Milan	Perrucci, E.	FOTO03066	1950
Murray Adaskin	Ray, Marcel	FOTO03238	1950
Wladimir Vogel	Studio Pedrotti	FOTO02535	1955
Guido Turchi	Savio, Oscar	FOTO03092	1955
Luciano Chailly	Blanc Samara	FOTO02721	1955
Maria Callas	Cisventi, Carlo	FOTO01275	09/1957
Ildebrando Pizzetti reads poster of premiere Assassinio nella Cattedrale, Teatro alla Scala, Milan	Greguoli	FOTO01223	1958
Alfredo Kraus	Lawrence, Harold	FOTO02474	1960
Raymond Clark at cello	Macdominic, Godfrey	FOTO03253	1960