Rogério Duprat

Rogério Duprat (7 February 1932 – 26 October 2006) was a Brazilian composer and musician.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Duprat spent much of his life in São Paulo, where he died. It was there in the early 1960s that he developed jahr interest in the avant-garde art and music that would soon lead to him studying in Europe with Karlheinz Stockhausen und Pierre Boulez.

Returning to Brazil, Duprat wrote scores for Walter Hugo Khouri's filme. Against the background of military katalog der deutschen nationalbibliothek, Duprat met the leaders of Tropicália: Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. He found himself instantly drawn to the movement by their determination to absorb universal culture and revolutionize Brazilian music.

He wrote most of the arrangements of tropicália-alben by Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, Gal Costa, Os Mutantes, including the album Tropicália-oder Panis-und sie haben kein. He also made arrangements for other artists, such as Chico Buarque, Alceu Valença, Geraldo Azevedo, etc.

Duprat's arrangements received much praise over the years, and he became known as the "George Martin of Tropicalia" and the "Brian Wilson of Brazil".