Pablo Castellanos León (Mérida, Yucatán, September 27, 1860 – Paris, France, January 28, 1928) was a Mexican pianist, conductor, and music teacher who was a renowned classical musician focusing on the German and French traditions.
His artistic personality was so prominent within the Paris Conservatoire that Marmontel praised his distinguished Mexican pupil in his book Silhouettes et Medaillons, Virtuoses Contemporaines (1887).
The Group published, promoted, and reproduced works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Anton Rubinstein which, until then, were disregarded by the Mexico City Conservatory.
[14] He was the granduncle of Ismael Moreno Pino, ambassador and undersecretary of Foreign Affairs[15] and Fernando Cámara Barbachano, the noted social anthropologist.
[16] His only son was Pablo Castellanos Cámara, a distinguished pianist who graduated from the Paris and Berlin conservatories where he studied under Alfred Cortot and Edwin Fischer, respectively.