Included in the Collegia musica libraries are works of special interest written by the Moravian David Moritz Michael (1751-1827). Michael, who was born and educated in Germany, was a musician of exceptional ability. While at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania he reorganized the Collegia musica and in 1811 directed the Collegium musicum in the first American performance of Haydn's Creation. During this stay at Bethlehem, he wrote what is considered to be the earliest woodwind music (Harmonie) composed in this country. He came by this interest naturally, having been an oboist and French horn player in German pit orchestras and military bands prior to his arrival in America. Among his various choral and instrumental works written while in America are some fourteen partitas and two well-publicized "water music" suites. A number of these popular "Pennsylvania" works found their way south into the library of the Collegium musicum in Salem, North Carolina about 1810