The members of the Jury for the 1981 Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts, Antonio Bonet Correa, Jesús María Caamaño, Miguel Fisac, José Gudiol, Orlando Pelayo and José Ramón Fernández Cuevas, gathered in Oviedo on the 9th and 10th of July, 1981, under the presidency of Federico Sopeña and with José Antonio Caicoya Cores acting as secretary, agreed unanimously to grant this award, in recognition of his most outstanding position in the European panorama of symphonic music and opera, to which must be added the desire to stimulate to which the award-winner contributes directly, with no detriment to his brilliant international career, to the intense work with the National Orchestra, to Jesús López Cobos.