Else Streit

{{Short description|German composer}} '''Else Streit''' (born 27 July 1869) was a German composer,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hixon|first=Donald L.|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}}}}</ref> pianist,<ref>{{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}}}}</ref> teacher, and violinist.<ref>{{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}}}}</ref>

Streit was born in Lauenburg, Pomerania, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. She studied music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory and the Stern Conservatory.<ref name=":0">{{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}}}}</ref> Her teachers included Heinrich Deeke, Gustav Hollaender, Stephan Krehl and Max Loewengar.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Cohen|first=Aaron I.|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}}}}</ref>

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.<ref name=":1" />

Streit's music, in opus numbers through at least 25, was published by Adolf Martin Schlesinger.<ref name=":1" /> Her compositions include:

== Chamber ==

*''Romance in B minor'' (violin and piano)<ref name=":1" /> *''Sonata'' (violin and piano)

== Opera == *''St. Nikolaus und seine Gehilfen''<ref name=":0" />

== Orchestra ==

*Festmarsch for Infantry<ref name=":1" /> *Symphonietta (string orchestra)<ref name=":1" /> *Theme and Variations<ref name=":1" />

== Vocal ==

*Drei Lieder, opus 25<ref name=":1" /> *"Es war einmal", opus 7<ref name=":1" /> *"Psalm" (soprano, violin and organ)<ref name=":1" /> *Vier Lieder, opus 21<ref name=":1" /> *Vier Lieder, opus 22<ref name=":1" /> *"Weihnacht"<ref name=":1" />

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