[2] He was known as an instructor of music and specialized in the violin, publishing multiple works on the instruction of the instrument.

[4] In 1876, Bissing arrived in Ellis County from the Volga River area of Russia with his family.

He was about five years old when his family arrived in Kansas and he began to study music on a homemade four-octave organ made by his father.

As he grew older, Bissing studied at the Chicago College of Music alongside jazz violinist Eddie South[5] and finished violin instruction under Francis Boucher.

Bissing left to complete his studies and returned to Topeka in 1906 to reorganize his teaching conservatory.