meanwhile , at a pushkin - goethe festival held recently in moscow to observe the poets ' birthdays ( this year is goethe ' s 250th ) , denis prigov , a pre - modernist composer and abstract engineer , took the third line from " onegin " ( " my friend - heavy ideals inspire him " ) and setting it to buddhist and muslim mantras and russian orthodox and gregorian chants .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.