Career
In 1896, he moved to the city of Allentown in Lehigh County. In 1901, he accepted a job as the organist and choirmaster of Allentown's Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, a position he held until his retirement only weeks before his death in 1950 (his successor as organist and choirmaster at Sacred Heart was Karl Buesgen, Birmelin's student and noted Pennsylvania impressionist landscape painter). Birmelin was also the first music teacher at Allentown Central Catholic High School, a position he held from 1926 to 1936.
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