These few lines of the preface to the 1903 Romain Rolland for this brief (73 pages) but dense Beethoven biography that follows a presentation text .... 72 pages (not uninteresting incidentally) !.
This book is like the music of Beethoven, "for those who are not resigned to mediocrity of the soul" (p.83)
NB No musicological character; for that you need to refer to other works RR
