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 12261 listening experiences in the database, with 192 more experiences awaiting approval.

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James (Jemmy) Collier in Chesham, Buckinghamshire - 10 June, 1745

"Letter from James Collier to his father, John Collier, 18 June 1745 My uncle by his letter of Thursday's post gave you so particular an account of our expedition into Buckinghamshire, that considering the badness of the weather, it was almost impossible to subjoin any [...]"
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Sergey Prokofiev - 20 February, 1916, at night

"Dined at Sosnitsky's, the vice-chairman of our Chess Society, now moth-balled because of the war. In his tiny apartment we ate delicious bliny and drank masses of wine in inebriated company with chess-players and people who work at New Times.Velikhov, despite [...]"
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