 Felix Mendelssohn, the composer, and his sister Fanny Mendelssohn, also a gifted musician, were her nephew and niece.To fully appreciate the importance of this cultural scene, see the entries for Moses Mendelssohn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schlegel, Germaine de Staël, Felix Mendelssohn, Ludwig Tieck, Novalis, and others.Dorothea was the common link or nexus among them all.