Three years later, he became friends with the brothers Paulo and Haroldo Tapajós, with whom he assembled his first musical compositions, which were performed at friends' parties. In 1929 he completed high school, as his family moved back to Gávea.[3] This same year, he was admitted to the Faculty of Law at the University of Rio de Janeiro - nowadays the Law School of the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) - which until 1937 was located at a mansion in downtown Rio (Casarão do Catete). At the "School of Catete", he met and became friends with essayist and future novelist Octavio de Faria, an activist integrist Catholic and a leader of the group of rightwing Catholics organized around Centro Dom Vital, a think-tank created by intellectual Jackson de Figueiredo[4] shortly before his untimely death.