Some two weeks after his collapse, Schoeck was moved back home. This was just at the moment when a production of his Venus in Bern under Kurt Rothenbühler was receiving excellent reviews, especially for its Horace, Libero de Luca. While this presumably cheered Schoeck up, he was too sick to attend in person. He further missed the world premiere of his Gesangfest im Frühling on 12 April, also in Bern under Rothenbühler. Paul Rossier, Schoeck's doctor, ascribed his heart attack to excessive smoking and to rotting teeth roots. Schoeck had long had an inordinate fear of the dentist, and his refusal to look after his teeth had now had drastic consequences (despite his fierce opposition, the rotting teeth were pulled by the end of the year). Nor was he the only invalid at home, for Hilde too became ill in late March and was put in the bedroom next to her husband's. She was up again before him, however. Not until 1 May did his doctors let him get out of bed: “From today onwards I am allowed to measure out with shuffling steps my immeasurable space for the first time … that makes roughly two or three steps in the room, and still I prefer to sit down soon after this particular achievement,” he wrote to Rüeger. He was as yet without a piano, for it was another fortnight before he could go down to his music room on the ground floor.