Archivio Storico Ricordi
Via Brera, 28
Vecchia Brera
Opening times
Monday - Friday
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. / 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Giovanni Ricordi (1785-1853), a violinist and copyist by profession, soon began collecting scores and librettos. Starting from 1803 he signed several contracts with some theatres in Milan, which granted him the rights of diffusion of parts of the musical material he produced: they are the Teatro Carcano, the Teatro del Lentasio and the Teatro Girolamo. The contracts assure him, for example, the right to sell pieces for piano or orchestral voices. These first acquisitions of musical material represent, in fact, the genesis of the Archivio Storico Ricordi.
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