But in this letter he will also reveal the astonishing secrets of his past and answer the question that has shadowed his fame: how did Moses Froben, world-renowned musico, come to raise a son whom by all rights he could never have sired? In a letter to his son, Moses recounts his humble birth in 18th-century Switzerland and his life as a novice monk, and tells of the two noble friends - and a forbidden lover - whom he cherished during his chaotic years in Mozart's Vienna as apprentice to the great Gaetano Guadagni, and even as he ascended Europe's most celebrated stages as Lo Svizzero. Gall and becomes its star singer, only to endure the horrifying castration meant to preserve his angelic voice and turn him into a musico. Cast into the world with only his ears to protect and guide him, Moses finds refuge in the choir of the great Abbey of St. His life is simple but he is content, until the day his father recognizes Moses's singular sense of hearing and its power to expose his sins. Moses Froben was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, the bastard son of a deaf-mute woman banished to the church tower to ring each day the loudest and most beautiful bells in the land.
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