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Encyclopedia > Giulio Ricordi

Giulio Ricordi (Milan 1840-1912) was an Italian Editor, musician and composer. An Editor is a person who prepares text—typically language, but also images and sounds—for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ...


With the nickname Jules Burgmein, Ricordi contribuited a lot to the prestige of the Casa Ricordi, publishing company of his family, also with the magazines La gazzetta musicale, Musica e musicisti and Ars et labor magazines, and various other once famous pubblications (La biblioteca del pianistall, llOpera Omnia di Frédéric Chopin, L'arte musicale in Italia, Sonate di Domenico Scarlatti. Casa Ricordi was a wordwide publisher of operas and classical music, founded by Giovanni Ricordi in Milan in 1808. ...


He was also editor of the last Giuseppe Verdi and had the intuition to invest in young composers such as Amilcare Ponchielli, Alfredo Catalani, Giacomo Puccini, Umberto Giordano, Lorenzo Perosi. Giuseppe Verdi, by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 (National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome) Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) is to date the most influential composer of the 19th centurys Italian School of Opera. ... Amilcare Ponchielli (August 31, 1834 _ January 17, 1886) was an Italian composer. ... Alfredo Catalani (June 19, 1854–August 7, 1893), was an Italian operatic composer, best known for the works La Wally (most famous aria: Ebben? Ne andro lontana; act I) and Loreley. ... Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924) is regarded as one of the great operatic composers of the late 19th and early 20th century. ... Umberto Giordano (August 28, 1867 - November 12, 1948) was a composer, mainly of opera. ... DON LORENZO PEROSI A Brief Biography by Leonardo Ciampa Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi was without question the most important composer of sacred music during the turn of the last century, and one of the greatest Catholic composers of all time. ...


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Wikipedia: Giuseppe Verdi (788 words)
In 1838, the leading European musical editor Giovanni Ricordi bought his copyrights and this business would last for the rest of his life, passing through the generations of Ricordi's family, with Tito and Giulio Ricordi being considered as part of his family.
It had been composed for the Egyptian Khedive, on the occasion of the inauguration of a new opera house in Cairo, and not for the opening of the Suez Canal as often mentioned.
However, a few years later it was Giulio Ricordi who proposed Otello, which had its premiere in 1887.
Opera Italiana (412 words)
Giulio was succeeded by Tito I (Milan, 1811-1888) who brought a more modern style of management to the family business.
Tito's son Giulio (Milan, 1840-1912) was a man of great activity and culture, a close personal friend of Verdi and Puccini, and was the man who brought an international dimension to the house.
In 1919 Ricordi was first managed by administrators outside the family circle: Renzo Valcarenghi (Crema, 1860 - Milan, 1947) and Carlo Clausetti (Naples, 1869 - Fano, 1943), who decided to extend the company's activity to all genres and forms of music, with partner companies all over the world.
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