Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg has been played on NTS in shows including THE SOUND OF GRAND THEFT AUTO: THE CLASSICS, featured first on 13 December 2021. Songs played include Aria: Finch' Han' Del Vino.

Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg (April 15, 1906 in Stuttgart - April 1, 1985 in Hamburg) was a German conductor.

He began his career in Munich as an assistant to Hans Knappertsbusch at the Munich Staatsoper. After several appointments in Essen, Dortmund, and Kiel, in 1934 he succeeded Herbert von Karajan as first Kapellmeister in Ulm. In 1937 he conducted a complete Beethoven cycle at the invitation of Furtwängler. In 1938 he became director of the Hamburg…