1940 First performance in Barcelona of Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra on November 9.  
1941

Birth of his daughter, Cecilia, on January 27.

 
1942 National Music Prize for the Concierto heroico, for piano and orchestra.
Music critic for "Pueblo" newspaper, later for "Marca" and "Madrid".
 
1944 Head of Music broadcasts for Radio Nacional de España.  
1945 Awarded the Encomienda de Alfonso X el Sabio.  
1947 Takes the newly created ' Manuel de Falla' Chair of Music at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Madrid.  
1948 First prize in the Cervantes Competition (commemorating the 400th anniversary of the birth of Cervantes) for Ausencias de Dulcinea.