Walter Damrosch (1862-1950) was a German-born American conductor and composer, one of the major institution-building figures in early American orchestral life. He was long associated with New York musical culture.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears conducting Gluck, Saint-Saëns, Ravel and other repertory in recordings from the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Damrosch’s importance lies not only in recorded interpretation but in musical advocacy, broadcasting and the development of American concert audiences. He helped shape how orchestral music reached the public.

His page is justified by historical stature as much as by catalogue presence. Damrosch was one of the old gate-builders of American classical music.