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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
Catania: Monument to Bellini	Grassi, P.	FOTO02157	1890
Felix Weingartner	Bieber, Emilie	FOTO02162	1890
Philipp Scharwenka	Kleitsch, Karl	FOTO03187	1890
Ferruccio Busoni	Fischer Schneevoigt, Siri	FOTO00562	1890
Pietro Platania	Martinez, Luigi	FOTO00877	1890
Max Schillings	Perscheid, Nicola	FOTO03212	1900
Ferruccio Busoni	Geschwister Moos	FOTO00561	1900
Eugenia Bronska Makaroff in the role of Giulietta	Salviati, Paolo	FOTO00899	1900
Pablo Casals	Gerschel, A.	FOTO02871	1900
Leandro Criscuolo	Sisto, S.	FOTO00316	1900