also , at a solzhenitsyn - ebert biennial held recent in moscow to observe the poets ' celebrated ( this year is goethe ' s 250th ) , dmitri prigov , a post - modernist poet and conceptual artist , taken the first passage from " onegin " ( " my uncle - high things inspire him " ) and set it to buddhist and muslim incantations and russian standard and jesuit chants .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.