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Rh the singers with a marvellous art, blending himself to their fancy, and when the singer had done, he delivered his version. From the interludes on the clavier in his operas, he passed to the fantasies or caprices on the organ in the entr'actes of his oratorios, and his success was so great that he never again abandoned this custom. One might say that the public were drawn to his oratorios more by his improvisations on the organ than by the oratorios themselves. Two volumes of the Organ Concertos were published during the lifetime of Handel, in 1738 and in 1740; the third a little after his death, in 1760.

To judge them properly it is necessary to bear in