Louis Pabst (18 July 1846–6 December 1921) was a German pianist and music teacher. He was the son of composer August Pabst, who later directed the Riga Conservatory, and the brother of composer and pianist Paul Pabst.
He studied first with his father and then with Anton Rubinstein. Pabst taught in Riga; his students there included Alexander Olenin. After his father’s death, he went to Australia. In 1887, he helped establish the Melbourne Conservatorium, where Percy Grainger was among his students.
From 1895, Pabst was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. He later held the same position in Vienna, Munich, and Nuremberg. His students included pianist Tina Lerner. His wife, Elena von Engelhardt, was a German writer who translated poems by Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov.
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