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 12295 listening experiences in the database, with 201 more experiences awaiting approval.

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Ireland Greene et al. in London (Vauxhall Gardens or Ranelagh?) - 31 March, 1748

"Diary entry 31st March 1748. Drank tea with Mrs. Winford, afterwards went to the Ridotto with Mrs. Faz. & Miss Winford; a greater crowd of company than had been at a Ridotto for seven years. Mr. Freeman hand’d me"
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Sergey Prokofiev in Saint Petersburg Conservatory - 15 January, 20th Century

"Max came round in the evening and we went together to the student concert. It was not much of a programme and the audience was small, no one of great interest having turned up. Kätchen Borshch played well; she has made great progress. Zakharov was there; my [...]"
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