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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Nikolai Myaskovsky in Saint Petersburg - 10 September, 1907

"Myaskovsky did not like my C minor Sonatina at all: 'God knows what this is supposed to be! Operetta music, and the cheapest kind at that! I was obviously right not to submit it, even though personally I am rather fond of the first movement; the only thing that met [...]"
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