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...long stored in Milan in a plain brownstone office building at No. 2 Via Berchet, not far from La Scala. The opera house is more famous, but the office building has done at least as much to shape the rhapsodic flow of Italian music. Its name: Casa Ricordi...
...Casa Ricordi owns an estimated 150,000 pieces of original sheet music, can furnish scores and orchestral parts of 2,000 operas and 500 symphonies. The firm discovered, nurtured and financed virtually every major composing talent in Italian opera, e.g., Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini, many of whose original manuscripts, for safekeeping, now lie crammed into 17 zinc cases, 45 feet below ground in a Milan bank. The House of Ricordi still publishes the works of many of the world's leading composers, including Francis Poulenc, Gian Carlo Menotti, Edgard Varese. Now 151 years old, the firm is making news...
...Hates. Casa Ricordi was founded in Milan in 1808 by a violinist who, so the legend goes, noticed that the workers around La Scala wore paper hats made of discarded musical scores. Giovanni Ricordi investigated, found that valuable scores and orchestra parts were stacked high in La Scala's cellar. He began to buy up some of the scores, set himself up as a copyist, got a contract stipulating that all the scores he produced would remain his property after a performance. In an age without copyrights or royalties on performances, he funneled some of his earnings back...
...putting the orchestra through Falstaff early last week, he found the orchestral parts full of wrong notes. Stopping the music, he would summon flutists and violists to the podium, hold the offending scores up to his nose so he could read them, then mock the publisher ("Viva la casa Ricordi...
...Ricordi & Co. vigorously protects Respighi's music as it does that of the late Giacomo Puccini. Manhattan's Metropolitan has to pay $500 each time it puts on a Puccini work. Ricordi charged radio on an average of $5,000 apiece for the six Puccini operas sent over the air two seasons ago (TIME...