On Sunday 25 April 1937 Schoeck was awarded the Erwin von Steinbach Prize at a ceremony in the main hall of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, just across the German border. The guests included representatives from the universities of Basel, Bern, and Zurich and from the Nazi Party and the Wehrmacht, plus various colleagues such as Werner Reinhart, Hermann Burte, Ernst Isler, and Hans Corrodi. The program began with a Bach Toccata for organ. Then Josef Peilscher played Schoeck's Violin Sonata Op. 16, accompanied by Hans Rosbaud (better known today for his work as a conductor). Friedrich Metz, the rector of Freiburg University, gave a laudatio in which he remarked that although the political borders of the region were sacrosanct, it was “a tragic, inevitable fate” that the Alemannic peoples had been split between four countries (Switzerland, Germany, France, and Luxembourg). Schoeck's German roots were yet again stressed, and his year of study with Reger in Leipzig was held up as further proof of his belonging to the German tradition. Schoeck declined to make a reply to the speech, offering instead a few carefully chosen words of thanks and expressing the wish that his music should speak for itself. He thereupon conducted a shortened version of the Elegie with Loeffel and members of the Freiburg opera orchestra. This was the last time that the two men would perform the work together.