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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
Mario Garuti	Melzer, Manfred	FOTO01922	1983
Salvatore Sciarrino	Sarteanesi, Nemo	FOTO01777	1984
Massimo Cacciari and Luigi Nono during the rehearsals of Prometeo	Arici, Graziano	FOTO03300	1984
Gérard Grisey	Gray, Maryon	FOTO02894	1984
Luigi Nono	Honig, Peter	FOTO01824	1985
Corrado Pasquotti	Del Puppo	FOTO01955	1985
Aurelio Samorì	Scifi	FOTO02094	1985
Azio Corghi	Molteni, Giuseppe	FOTO02460	1985
Gerard Brophy	Sinclair, Peter	FOTO03116	1985
The composer Luciano Chailly with his son Riccardo, conductor	Wilhelm, Guido	FOTO03178	1985