A wealth of music in West Cork Chamber Music Festival

THE 20-year-old Franz Schubert was once asked how it was possible for him to have composed so much music at his age.

He replied: ‘I write all day and when I have finished one piece I begin another’.

Substitute ‘festival’ for ‘piece’ and one gets an idea of how a sheep farmer, living on a remote peninsula in the south west of Ireland, has managed to establish one of the most important chamber music festivals in the western hemisphere.