After a first attempt, Jesús and Rosita finally returned "on tiptoe" to Spain. Without a warning, they closed and sold their properties and gave up their life in Mexico. It seemed like they made the right decision. Many of their friends (Filgueira, Celestino Fernández de la Vega, and some young composers) tried to help them by organizing events to highlight his work. They got Bal a job, teaching composition in the Música en Compostela courses. Certainly, Bal could have concentrated on writing his unfinished book on Falla, on teaching, composing ... He could have reinserted into Spanish society, as some other exiles did. But the truth is that only his friends continued writing to him, encouraging him, those who tried to get him out of his house. His friends in Lugo organized a tribute to him, a concert during the week of Corpus Christi in 1973. In addition, he was named “man of the year” in that town in 1976. He also received tributes from the Residencia de Estudiantes, the Madrid City Council, the Galician Association in Madrid, the Juventudes Musicales de Vigo ... Little by little, though he remained aware of his friends’ efforts to help him, Bal was withdrawing into his inner world until he stopped attending events organized on his behalf. From this last stage of his career, Bal y Gay, a thoughtful and intense intellectual,  left us some monographs, his wrongly-called “Memoirs”, a conference, and a couple of books.