[5] Soon, he played professionally in the XEW-AM radio station, this got the recognition of the opera singer Alfonso Ortiz Tirado, who in 1931, hired Curiel as an accompanist for one year.

[8] In 1939, Gonzalo Curiel, members of the Mexican Association of Authors and Composers (AMAC), members of the Escuadrón del Ritmo orchestra, some publishing companies, and other individual artists created the "Sindicato Mexicano de Autores, Compositores y Editores de Música" or SMACEM, the creation of the group was to strengthen the economic stability of writers and artists of Mexico, basing its purpose of collecting Author's right from the 8th title of Civil code of 1928.

On 22 February 1945, the members wrote an agreement under "Civil entity code" that created the Society of Authors and Composers of Mexico, or SACM.

[1] On 4 July 1958, Curiel died of a myocardial infarction at age 54 in his home, he was buried in the Panteón Jardín de San Ángel, in Mexico City.

[11] The most notable are listed below: Curiel had written 3 piano concertos,[5] the 2nd being partially lost but recovered by Arturo Rodríguez,[12] and the 3rd left unfinished with only 1 movement.