Else Streit

{{Short description|German composer}}

Else Streit (born 27 July 1869) was a German composer,{{Cite book|last=Hixon|first=Donald L.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28889156|title=Women in Music : An Encyclopedic Biobibliography|date=1993|publisher=Scarecrow Press|others=Don A. Hennessee|isbn=0-8108-2769-7|edition=2nd|location=Metuchen, New Jersey|oclc=28889156|page={{page needed|date=October 2021}}}} pianist,{{Cite book|last=Pedigo|first=Alan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hwoKAQAAMAAJ&q=else+streit+composer|title=International Encyclopedia of Violin-keyboard Sonatas and Composer Biographies|date=1995|publisher=Arriaga Publications|isbn=978-0-9606356-2-7|page={{page needed|date=October 2021}}}} teacher, and violinist.{{Cite book|last=Wier|first=Albert Ernest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aiAKAQAAMAAJ&q=else+streit+composer|title=The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians|date=1938|publisher=Macmillan|page={{page needed|date=October 2021}}}}

Streit was born in Lauenburg, Pomerania, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. She studied music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory and the Stern Conservatory.{{Cite book|last=McVicker|first=Mary F.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZnPDAAAQBAJ&dq=else+streit+composer&pg=PA214|title=Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century|date=2016-08-09|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-9513-9|page={{page needed|date=October 2021}}}} Her teachers included Heinrich Deeke, Gustav Hollaender, Stephan Krehl and Max Loewengar.{{Cite book|last=Cohen|first=Aaron I.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16714846|title=International Encyclopedia of Women Composers|date=1987|isbn=0-9617485-2-4|edition=Second, revised and enlarged|location=New York|oclc=16714846|page={{page needed|date=October 2021}}}}

Streit taught violin, piano, and music theory at the Bromberg Conservatory, the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory, and the New Conservatory, Charlottenburg. She also taught privately in Berlin.

Streit's music, in opus numbers through at least 25, was published by Adolf Martin Schlesinger. Her compositions include: