Francesco Brusa -also: Gianfrancesco Bruscia, Brugia, Brusca- (c.1700 - aft.1768), an Italian composer, from Venice. He was known as an organist at the church of San Marco before he began his career as a composer. Towards the end of his life, he was Maestro di Coro at the Incurabili. In Brusa's collection of church music, the Missa pro defunctis is his only surviving mass setting, having been written for the Incurabili musicians in 1767.