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BEETHOVEN’S LAST words were “Clap your hands my friends, the comedy is over,” but almost 200 years after his death, the applause for his magnificent music has stopped.

The Kilkenny Arts Festival’s specially co-ordinated choir and orchestra gave Kilkenny classical music fans a real treat on Saturday night last where they performed for the first and only time in the beautiful venue of St Canice’s Cathedral.

NO OTHER composer has been so often quoted, written about, adopted for political and revolutionary causes (ranging from Marxism to fascism) and painted, but who was the real Beethoven? Who was the man behind the romantic image of the tortured artist with the unruly hair, unhinged personality, and furrowed brow?