Conductor – score – composer. Connections and interdependencies

Abstract

In a score, music exists only potentially; it only comes to life through the decoding of the score by the performer (in this case, the conductor, through the ensemble). In addition to this first observation, we can also notice the existence of several differentiated relationships between the ensemble and conductor on one hand, and the ensemble and composer on the other. Even if the ensemble is the sum of some performers, for the conductor it is, essentially “an instrument” of expression as a performer.