Welcome to The Listening Experience Database

This is an open and freely searchable database that brings together a mass of data about people’s experiences of listening to music of all kinds, in any historical period and any culture.

There are currently 12332 listening experiences in the database, with 191 more experiences awaiting approval.

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Jemima Yorke in London, England - between at the end of 1745 and in the beginning of 1746

"[Letter from Jemima Yorke to Mary Gregory, 17th April 1746] Our Dispute about Music seems like the famous Controversy upon Ancient & modern Authors, & I am always (I think) partial to my Old Friends the Ancients. I allow however all the Merit of the Songs [...]"
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Sergey Prokofiev - 15 September, 1914

"I had only one student, and she spent all the time staring at her feet and speaking in a deep bass voice. Mme Levenstern introduced us and then left the room. I made her play whatever she could. She drummed her way quite efficiently through 'Gradus ad Parnassum', [...]"
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