Hilde was due to give the Swiss premiere of the first group of the Mörike songs in October 1949, but this had to be postponed when she became ill with migraines and neuritis in the late summer. She entered hospital in October but was soon allowed to move to Alma Staub's villa to recuperate. Othmar was already there, preferring the comfort of the Villa Alma to coping wifeless at home. He was also composing this autumn, having accepted a commission for the centenary of the Singing Association of Canton Schwyz. He chose a short, mildly patriotic poem by Gottfried Keller, “In Duft und Reif,” in which the poet imagines the figure of Liberty wandering through the night, turning an autumnal landscape into a vision of spring. Schoeck set it for male voice choir, strings, four brass, and percussion, and gave it the title Vision. It is one of his? ner late works, with its felicitous orchestration serving to distract one from the fact that it repeats the same cadential formulae that we find time and again in his post-Dürande works.

The delayed Swiss premiere of a selection from Das holde Bescheiden took place in Zurich on 16 March 1950, with Hilde and Schoeck giving repeat performances in various places large and small over the coming months, from Winterthur in March to Meersburg (just across the border in Germany) in July.