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 10981 listening experiences in the database, with 453 more experiences awaiting approval.

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Latest Experience

Dorothy 'Daisy' Cowper in Liverpool - 15 April, 1906

"[Daisy Cowper’s much older sister Agnes Cowper (1874-1963) also wrote a memoir, A backward glance at Merseyside, listening experiences from which are featured in the Listening Experience database]   Agnes was a loyal Sunday School teacher from girlhood [...]"
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Sergey Prokofiev in New York City - 17 January, 1920, in the afternoon

"I went to Blue Bird, an opera by the undistinguished French composer Wolff. I did my best not to listen to the music in order not to spoil my impression of Anisfeld's scenery, which was fabulous, with gorgeously rich colours and not without a touch of the [...]"
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