capella in quarter-tones); Balbuceos (Babbles for metamorphoser piano in sixteenth-tones and orchestra). This last work was commissioned by Leopold Stokowski and performed for the first time in Houston. In Paris during 1963, Carrillo won the Great Award of Latin American Music. He lectured in the Mexican Embassy in London and was interviewed by the BBC. The Times of London published an article from their Mexico City correspondent: The grand old man of Mexican music, Julián Carrillo, has spent his life peering into an unsuspected microtonic world of sound. He has shattered and then remade our chromatic scale, and we might be tempted to call him the atom-splitter of music, except that the name gives no idea of the rich emotional world he has opened. ... This was a more startling revolution than when Terpander, in Greece 26 centuries ago, added two notes to the Chinese five-tone scale. In 1964 Robert Gendre premiered Carrillo's First Violin Concerto in quarter- tones. That year, Carrillo wrote several works: three sonatas for viola in quarter-tones, a Sonata for violin in quarter-tones, the Second Violin Concerto in quarter-tones, and several atonal canons. Mexico's government awarded him the Civic Merit Medal because of the anniversary of the Canto a la Bandera (Song to the National Flag). In 1965 the USSR invited Carrillo to perform several concerts across the country, but he died before it could be a reality. He also won the Sibelius Award of Finland, with the support of the most important musical institutes of France, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, but his death prevented his receiving it personally. Carrillo died in Mexico City on September 9, 1965. His body was placed in the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres (the Rotunda of Illustrious Persons) of the Panteón de Dolores. Sources External links Official Website of the Julián Carrillo Estate (in Spanish) http://sonido13.tripod.com (in Spanish) "Biography of Julian Carrillo", Julian Carrillo and the 13th Sound. "Carrillo", Huygens-Fokker.org , performed by Mitsuko Shirai 1875 births 1965 deaths 19th-century classical composers 19th-century classical violinists 19th-century conductors (music) 20th-century classical composers 20th-century classical violinists 20th-century conductors (music) 20th-century male musicians Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Male classical violinists Male conductors (music) Mexican classical composers Mexican classical violinists Mexican conductors (music) Mexican male classical composers Mexican music theorists Mexican Romantic composers Microtonal composers National Conservatory of Music of Mexico alumni People from San