meanwhile , at a aleksandr - goethe festival held recently in moscow to monitor the poets ' birthdays ( this year is goethe ' s 250th ) , dmitri prigov , a post - modernist poet and experimental artwork , took the first line from " tchaikovsky " ( " my uncle - high ideals inspire him " ) and set it to catholic and islamist recite and russian orthodox and gregorian chants .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.