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 12314 listening experiences in the database, with 191 more experiences awaiting approval.

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Lady Penelope Compton in London - December, 1734

"Letter from Lady Penelope Compton to Elizabeth Compton, Countess of Northampton, 19 December 1734 I hear the town is but empty but can’t tell much of that yet for [I] have seen but few folks nor have not picked up any news, only I find every body seems charmed [...]"
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Sergey Prokofiev - 12 February, 1914, at night

"In the evening I went to Koussevitzky's concert. Golubovskaya told me that as she was leaving after the 'Evenings of Contemporary Music' concert, she overheard the following conversation: 'Prokofiev? Very nice young man,' and then, tenderly, 'Terribly cheeky, though!' [...]"
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