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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
Ella Fitzgerald during a concert	Mulas, Ugo	FOTO02479	1964
Presentation of Ricordi music enciclopedia, Milan, Circolo della stampa. From the left: Michelangelo Abbado, [?], Riccardo Allorto, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Claudio Sartori, Attilio Rossi, Rodolfo Celletti	Photo Service	FOTO03069	1964
Filippo Crivelli	Crespi	FOTO02458	1965
Giacomo Manzoni	Pölkow, Hans	FOTO03076	1965
Giacomo Manzoni	Casadei, Piero	FOTO02748	1965
from the left: Luigi Pestalozza and Luigi Nono	Ciminaghi, Luigi	FOTO03260	1968
Renzo Rossellini	De Grab, Richard	FOTO02514	1970
Karl Böhm	Lauterwasser, Siegfried	FOTO03297	1970
Flaviano Labò	Bonzi, M.	FOTO02725	1970
Luciano Berio, Rome, 1971	Bauknecht, Gisela	FOTO03270	1971