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 10946 listening experiences in the database, with 298 more experiences awaiting approval.

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Richard W. Morris in Burnhope, County Durham - 1926

"[Richard W. Morris, a miner at the time, describes a ‘morale boosting’ event organised by the Miners Executive during the 1926 General Strike]   Burnhope is a tiny village, with a small pit, on an almost unknown side road [...] You could not have had a [...]"
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Sergey Prokofiev in St. Petersburg - 18 January, 1913

"As for the Meshcherskys' musical evening, it included a quantity of chamber and solo music. The only thing I played was the Scherzo from my Op. 14, but it was decidedly a"
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