Mulè, Giuseppe (1855–1951)

Italian cellist and composer. He studied Sicilian folk song and found that its roots went back to Greek music; he wrote much incidental music for the performance of Greek plays at Syracuse.

He studied at the Palermo Conservatory, of which he was director 1922–25, when he became director of the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. He also became secretary to the fascist syndicate of musicians.

Works Stage operas La Baronessa di Carini (1912), Al lupo, La monacella della fontana (1923), Dafni (1928), Liolà (on Pirandello's play, 1935), Taormina; music for Greek plays: Aeschylus' Choephori, Seven against Thebes, Euripides' Bacchae, Medea, The Cyclops, Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Sophocles' Antigone; incidental music for Corradini's Giulio Cesare; oratorio Il cieco di Gerico (1910).

Orchestral symphonic poems Sicilia canora and Vendemmia.

Other Tre canti siciliani for voice and orchestra; string quartet; violin and cello pieces.