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

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“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 It returned home in November of after a two-year restoration project that doubled its size.

His last large organ was designed for St. John's Episcopal Church, completed and installed in 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 the performance.