Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published the first part of Faust in 1808.
In 1821 Goethe's friend Carl Friedrich Zelter introduced him to the 12-year-old Felix Mendelssohn
== Literary work ===== Overview ===The most important of Goethe's works produced before he went to Weimar were Gtz von Berlichingen (1773), a tragedy that was the first work to bring him recognition, and the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) (1774), which gained him enormous fame as a writer in the Sturm und Drang period which marked the early phase of Romanticism

