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 11439 listening experiences in the database, with 433 more experiences awaiting approval.

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Henry Croswell et al. in St Paul's Church, Camden Square, Camden New Town, London - 2 January, 1881, 07:00 PM

"And there were ten Psalms all over before 8.0! […] O[rgan]. – Good, curiously placed at the West end downstairs.  A voluntary was played before the last verses of the hymns. H[ymns]. – Very same and ordinary.  The Vicar [...]"
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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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