 Kneisel was the teacher of the great American violinist and pedagogue Joseph Fuchs.He also taught Fuchs' younger sister violist Lillian Fuchs, Robert Talbot, Joan Field, Bessie Bell Collier, Winifred Merrill Warren, and Vera Fonaroff.His daughter Marianne (b Boston, 10 March 1897; d New York, 4 March 1972) was an American violinist.