Rudolf Brucci (Bruči) (March 30, 1917 – October 30, 2002), was a composer of Croatian and Italian origin, born in Zagreb.
[citation needed] In 1953, he took composition lessons with the Viennese composer Alfred Uhl at the Vienna Music Academy.
[1] A crucial moment in his work was winning first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition for composers in Brussels in 1965 with his symphony Lesta.
He was one of the most important composers of Novi Sad, he urged the building of the new opera house there, the Serbian National Theatre.
[1] Other orchestral works include the symphonic poem Maskal, Metamorfosis B–A–C–H for strings, the ballets Katarina Izmailova, Golden Demon, and Circa, the cantata Vojvodina (text by Miroslav Antić), and two operas, Prometheus and Gilgamesh.