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Dvôrák was the chairman of the Committee on Award, and gave Schoenefeld hearty compliments. Only a few of Schoenefeld's works are published, all of them piano pieces. It is no slur upon his orchestral glory to say that these are for the most part unimportant, except the excellent "Impromptu" and "Prelude."
Thereafter he went to Weimar, where he studied under Edward Lassen. In 1879 he came back to America, and took up his residence in Chicago, where he has since lived as a teacher, orchestra leader, and composer. He has for many years directed the Germania Männerchor. Schoenefeld's "Rural Symphony" was awarded the $500 prize offered by the National Conservatory.
In the development a dance misterioso is used with faithful screaming repetitions, and the work ends regularly and brilliantly. There is much syncopation, though nothing that is strictly in "rag-time;" banjo-figurations are freely and ingeniously employed, and the whole is a splendid fiction in local color. Schoenefeld's negroes do not speak Bohemian.
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