Joseph Pustylnik was born on January 17, 1905, in Balta, Podolian Governorate (today in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine).
In 1933 he created later became his most popular work is the children's Opera in his own libretto to the poems of Samuil Marshak "Fire", which for many years was sung on the radio and pleasing to the pre-war kids.
His symphonic cantata on the motives of poems Musa Jalil performed in the Leningrad Philharmonic in the 1950s repeatedly.
In March 1955 forces of the choir, orchestra and solicitously state Philharmonic society and the Chuvash state ensemble of song and dance in Cheboksary 3 pictures of the Opera were delivered (musical Director F. Lukin, conductor Century A. Kudashev, directed by I. Maximov-Koshkinskiy, artist P. D. Dmitriev, starring made soprano T. Chumakova).
A huge number of composers uses to this day in their creativity of his most popular repeatedly reprinted scientific creation "A practical guide to writing canon", Leningrad, 1959, 2nd edition in 1975.