meanwhile , at a pushkin - goethe festival performed 2007 in moscow to observe the philosophers ' birthdays ( this day is goethe ' s 250th ) , dmitri prigov , a post - communist writer and conceptual artist , took the first quote from " rossini " ( " my uncle - high ideals guide him " ) and set it to sutra and muslim mantras and russian classical and gregorian chants .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.