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        1. Harald Rohlig (–) was born in Aurich, Germany.
        2. Rohlig was born in Germany but immigrated to Linden, Alabama, in He accepted a position at Huntingdon in and taught there until his retirement in.
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        4. Performance recordings of organist Dr. Harald Rohlig, retired Professor of Music at Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Alabama.

          5. Rohlig was born in Germany but immigrated to Linden, Alabama, in He accepted a position at Huntingdon in and taught there until his retirement in....

           

          Harald Rohlig was world-renowned among organists not only as a player and composer but as an organ designer.

          “I think of the organs as my children, and I've got them all over the country,” he said. One of his favorites is the organ he designed for the college’s chapel in 1965 It returned home in November of 2000 after a two-year restoration project that doubled its size.

          His formation as an organist began in his native Montgomery, Alabama with Dr. Harald Rohlig.

          His last large organ was designed for St. John's Episcopal Church, completed and installed in 2006. Now fully installed and tuned, the beautiful instrument is a culmination of and a tribute to Dr. Rohlig’s career.

          That career began when Harald Rohlig was a small boy in Germany.

          At the age of five, he began taking violin lessons. Obviously very gifted, his mother took him to hear a performance of Johan Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B Minor, which was performed at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Osnabruch. The beauty of the music so enthralled and captivated him that he remembers being physically ill for two weeks after