Edwin R. Fissinger (June 15, 1920, Chicago, Illinois – October 16, 1990, Fargo, North Dakota) was an American composer, conductor, scholar, and charter member of the ACDA.
Fissinger also sang and played the piano for his local radio program at WROK in Rockford, “The Voice of Ed Fissinger.” In 1940, he joined the Charlie Agnew Orchestra.
In 1944, after a brief tour with the Seventh Air Force in the Central Pacific, Fissinger became the first World War II veteran to enter the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago.
[4] At North Dakota State University, Fissinger was chairman of the music department and served as the director of the Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers.
[4] In 1973, 1977, and 1983 the NDSU Concert Choir, under his direction, was selected to perform at the opening session of the National Convention of the American Choral Directors Association.
[4] Fissinger’s compositional focus was on choral music, the medium in which he was actively involved as a conductor from 1947 to 1985.