Early Life
Birmelin was born in Longswamp Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania to a Pennsylvania German mother, and a German father who was a native of Baden, Germany. He studied music at a young age, and by the age of eleven was an organist in the local church where his father was a member of the choir.
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