Born in Berlin, he came from the Brandenburg family Meißner, which can be traced back to the beginning of the 18th century in Bochow near Groß Kreutz.
From 1915 to 1916 and 1918 to 1922, he studied piano in Berlin with A. Stark and Moritz Mayer-Mahr, and music theory with Ernst Schauß and Alexander von Fielitz.
From 1920 he was a piano teacher at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, and from 1922 he toured Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Norway and the U.K., using the stage name Meiszner.
[1] Meiszner was known for interpreting works by Chopin, but played a wide spectrum of composers ranging from Bach to Debussy and his contemporaries such as Ravel and Poulenc,[2] of which concert programs bear witness.
Despite his early death, Meiszner was able to record a number of records for the firms Lindström/Odeon, Homophon, Vox and Artiphon from 1922 to 1930, some of them as a soloist, and also playing chamber music with the violinist William Morse ,[3]: 139 and in a trio formation, the Dajos Béla-Trio, with violinist Dajos Béla and cellist Felix Robert Mendelssohn.