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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
Ricordi in Buenos Aires (Cangallo 1570): direction office	Dinami	FOTO02811	1957
Maria Callas	Cisventi, Carlo	FOTO01275	09/1957
Ricordi store in Via Berchet, Milan	Publifoto	FOTO02589	1958
Ildebrando Pizzetti reads poster of premiere Assassinio nella Cattedrale, Teatro alla Scala, Milan	Greguoli	FOTO01223	1958
Ricordi offices in Via Salomone, Milan	Martinotti	FOTO01637	1959
La Smorfia by Bruno Bettinelli, stage photo of world premiere, Como, 1959	Ghizzoni	FOTO03235	1959
Denise Duval in La voix humaine by Francois Poulenc	Leloire, Jean Pierre	FOTO03239	1959
Alfredo Kraus	Lawrence, Harold	FOTO02474	1960
Gianni Schicchi, stage photo, 1960	Houston, Roger	FOTO03234	1960
Raymond Clark at cello	Macdominic, Godfrey	FOTO03253	1960