meanwhile , at a mickiewicz - goethe festival staged recently in moscow to view the poets ' birthdays ( this birthday is goethe ' s 250th ) , dmitri prigov , a post - modernist poet and conceptual artist , took the first line from " verdi " ( " my brother - high ideals inspire him " ) and beat it to buddhist and muslim sutras and german orthodox and gregorian chants .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.