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 11142 listening experiences in the database, with 666 more experiences awaiting approval.

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Kate Luard in Vimy - 22 September, 1916

"  The __th Division Band came and sat down in front of the beds and played for an hour and a half, a good big Regimental Band, with lots of woodwind. It was lovely in this gramophone existence. They played Gluck, Rachmaninoff, Gondoliers and lots of things the men [...]"
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Sergey Prokofiev in Kolonny Zal, Moscow - 15 February, 1914, in the morning

"After some time in a café I went to the Hall of the Nobility for the rehearsal. While Orlov was working on Petrushka (much of which I find very attractive) I paced out the hall trying to work out which was larger, our Court Hall or their Hall of the [...]"
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