Many of the thirteen children of

Daniel Itzig Daniel Itzig (also known as Daniel Yoffe 18 March 1723 in Berlin – 17 May 1799 in Potsdam) was a Court Jew of Kings Frederick II the Great and Frederick William II of Prussia. Biography Itzig was born in Berlin. His family was mercantile. I ...

and Miriam Wulff, and their descendants and spouses, had significant impact on both

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and

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social and cultural (especially musical) history. Notable ones are set out below.

Daniel Itzig (1723–1799)

Bella Itzig (1749–1824)

Married Levin Jacob Salomon. Their son Jakob Salomon (1774–1825) converted to

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and took the surname ''Bartholdy'', and was for a time Prussian consul in Italy. Their daughter Lea (1777–1842) married

Abraham Mendelssohn Abraham Ernst Mendelssohn Bartholdy (born Abraham Mendelssohn; 10 December 1776 – 19 November 1835) was a German banker and philanthropist. He was the father of Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Rebecka Mendelssohn, and Paul Mendelssohn. ...

(1776-1835; the son of

Moses Mendelssohn Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the '' Haskalah'', or ...

). Lea and Abraham's children were

Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sym ...

and

Fanny Mendelssohn Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era who was also known as Fanny (Cäcilie) Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel (as well as Fanny Mendelssohn He ...

. (Jakob persuaded Abraham Mendelssohn to adopt the Bartholdy surname.) It was Bella who, "unaware of Felix's baptism", gave a manuscript of Bach's ''

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'' to her grandson Felix Mendelssohn in 1824.Jeffrey S. Sposato, ''The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition'' (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 39,

Isaac Daniel Itzig (1750–1806)

Founded with his brother-in-law David Friedländer the Jewish Free School in

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in 1778, the first of its kind.

Susanna Itzig (1752–1814)

Married David Friedländer, joint founder of the Jewish Free School in Berlin, who employed Moses Mendelssohn in his silk factory, and founded the bank of 'Mendelssohn and Friedländer' with Moses's son, Joseph. Friedländer was a major force in the movement for Jewish religious reform.

Elias Itzig (b. 1755)

Elias was the father of the lawyer

Julius Eduard Hitzig Julius Eduard Hitzig (born ''Isaac Elias Itzig''; 26 March 1780 in Berlin – 26 November 1849 in Berlin) was a German author and civil servant. Born into the wealthy and influential Jewish Itzig family, he was between 1799 and 1806 a Prussian ...

, butt of many gibes by

Heinrich Heine Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of '' Lied ...

, and of Henriette Itzig who married Nathan (Carl Theodore) Mendelssohn, son of Moses Mendelssohn.

Bonem Itzig (b. 1756)

Father of

Friedrich Hitzig Georg Friedrich Heinrich Hitzig (8 November 1811, in Berlin – 11 October 1881, in Berlin) was a German architect, born into the Jewish Itzig family, converted to Lutheranism. He was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. After his diploma in ...

, architect of many 19th-century Berlin buildings, including the

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built on the site of the Mendelssohn house.

Fanny (Feigele) Itzig (1758–1818)

Married the Viennese banker Baron Nathan Adam von Arnstein. They were both patrons and acquaintances of

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in Vienna. Their daughter, Baroness

Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein (29 November 1780 – 13 May 1859) was an Austrian pianist and salon-holder. Life Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein was born in Berlin in 1780, daughter of the Viennese banker Nathan von Arnstein and his wife Fanny v ...

, was a constant correspondent of her cousin, Felix Mendelssohn's mother Lea.

Caecilie (Zipperche) Itzig (1760–1836)

Married the Viennese banker Freiherr Bernhard von Eskeles, who joined his brother-in-law

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(see above) in partnership. They were patrons of

and also of

Ignaz Moscheles Isaac Ignaz Moscheles (; 23 May 179410 March 1870) was a Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer. He was based initially in London and later at Leipzig, where he joined his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as professor of piano at the Co ...

who gave piano lessons to Caecilie.

Sara(h) Itzig (1761–1854)

Married Solomon Levy. A talented keyboard player, she was the favourite pupil of

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and supported the widow of

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. She performed the harpsichord part at the premiere of the Concerto for Fortepiano and Harpsichord by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and probably commissioned the piece. She took a strong interest in the musical education of her grandnephew Felix Mendelssohn, recommending Zelter as his teacher. Her unique collection of Bach manuscripts was left to the

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, where she often performed in concerts.