RUDOLF BRUCCI Composer; (b. Zagreb, 30 March 1917 – d. Novi Sad, 30 October 2002)

University professor; Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Composition and orchestra playing, full professor (from 1974); director of School of Music ‘Isidor Bajić’ in Novi Sad (1955–1974)

Membership of SASA: Department of Fine Arts and Music; full member from 29 May 1991; VANU: Department of Social Sciences and Art; corresponding member from 4 December 1979; full member from 22 November 1984

Accession speech: Gilgamesh: an opera in three acts: libretto. Akademske besede / VANU. 15. Premiered at VANU on 2 November 1986

Awards and recognitions: October Prize of the City of Novi Sad (1961); Vojvodina Liberation Award (1973); ‘Peace and Friendship’ Award, Prague (1961); international Queen Elisabeth Grand Prize for symphony orchestra (1966); award of Sterijino pozorje for theatre music (1962); Liszt & Bartók memorial plaque of the Academy in Budapest (1972); Order of Labour with red flag (1974); National Order of Merit of France (1977)

Photograph: SANU-F 874