From Paul has died at 91 years old, but his music will soon sound on stage. In fact, in February his opera El abretas will be premiered. He has received many awards in recognition of his work: one of them was the golden lion of the Venice Music Biennial last year. He was also a professor at universities all over the world. New York, Canada, Germany...

He has also abandoned works related to the Basque Country, as the Euskadi Orchestra premiered in 2019 The Fall of Bilbao Kantata, which narrates the Francoist takeover of Bilbao. Another special episode was the presentation of the work The Wooden Poem at the Beethovenhalle concert hall in Bonn in 1976, based on the txalaparta performed by the Artze brothers.