Career
The compositions attributed to him show features of originality and have been compared to Ludwig van Beethoven"son He had some years of study in Lübben, and later in the Silesian city of Grünberg, but was largely self-taught as a violinist and as a player of several wind instruments. However, when a cello virtuoso arrived in Grünberg, he was so fascinated by the instrument that he taught himself to play lieutenant
Two years later he was invited to join the Duke of Dohna"s orchestra in the Saxon province of Kotzenau.
Then in 1780 Schönebeck became a town musician in Sorau, Lower Lusatia (now Żary, Poland). In order to continue perfecting his music, Schönebeck travelled to Potsdam, where he met the cello virtuoso Jean-Louis Dupont.
He also travelled to Dresden to play alongside the French cellist Jean Balthasar Tricklir. In 1787, Schönebeck joined the Duke of Courland"s orchestra in the Silesian province of Sagan.
Four years later he moved to the Duke Truchsess zu Waldburg"s orchestra, near the Prussian city of Königsberg (now known as Kaliningrad, Russia).
He stayed there two years, until he was transferred to the heart of Königsberg where he worked as a cellist in the orchestra and as a church organist. lieutenant was in his native city of Lübben where he finally established himself as a composer and music teacher. By 1800 he was able to present his own compositions in Leipzig.
lieutenant is not clear exactly when he died.
In Volume IV of Ernst Ludwig Gerber"s encyclopedia Neues Lexikon der Tonkünstler, he is described as a virtuoso cellist and apparently still alive in 1814. However other sources say that he died in 1806.