Josef Pasternack (1881-1940) was a conductor and composer, active in opera, orchestral and broadcast music during the early twentieth century.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in 1925: Landmarks from the Dawn of Electrical Recording, a release centred on the moment recording technology changed decisively.

Pasternack’s presence belongs to the early electrical era, where conductors and studio musicians had to adapt performance practice to a suddenly more revealing microphone.

His page is justified by historical context. Pasternack gives the 1925 shelf another working musician from the dawn-lit side of recording history.