ABSTRACT
Andres Bello, one of the foremost Latin American intellectuals of the period, tried to abridge the aesthetic problem – of a global art in a national landscape – in terms of a global, shared ‘Muse’. Bello invites Euterpe to become a cosmopolitan citizen. Cosmopolitanism, thus, could be understood in terms of style, but to become inherently cosmopolitan, it needed to be able to adapt to a new setting. The space of the philharmonic society allowed for the creation of new music that would be both national and grounded on the notion of a cosmopolitan, global style and practice of music. The cosmopolitan music scene of the early nineteenth century in Latin America was shaped by many of the genres and styles being used in Europe and the United States during that same period, that Age of Revolutions.
