Abstract
King George III’s queen consort, a German princess from the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, otherwise known as Queen Charlotte (1740-1818), is generally ignored by musicology. The following essay is dedicated to her enthusiastic patronage of the music of her day. With Johann Christian Bach as her music master, she organized both public and private concerts, which King George like-mindedly supported by establishing a German orchestra for her in 1783, an ensemble made up entirely of German musicians. Her collection of music was moved to the court in Hanover in 1837, where it remained largely unexplored by music historians for the next 160 years. All 563 volumes of the music library of the House of Hanover changed hands in 2008 in a discreet sale to Yale University. A list of the Queen Charlotte Music Library is included in the essay.
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