A vigorous advocate of Copyright Law, he was a founding member of the Argentine Society of Authors and Music Composers (SADAIC), in 1936. The creation of the Municipal Popular Orchestra of Folk Art in 1939 led to Filiberto's appointment as its director, a position he kept when President Juan Perón made it the National Popular Music Orchestra (Pops), in 1948. His retirement as director on October 18, 1959 was honored with an homage at Caminito Street, closing with the unveiling of a bust of the artist at the site of an open-air art gallery. Filiberto died in 1964, at age 79. Ten years after his death and in his honor, the Juan de Dios Filiberto National Orchestra of Argentine Music was founded. His modest home on 1140 Magallanes Street was acquired by the city in April 2007. His address in La Boca from 1932 until his death, the house was notable also for a mural created for him by his friend, artist Benito Quinquela Martín.