She encouraged her husband to resume the composition he had been forced to set aside during his first wife's illness, writing the libretto to two of his last choral works, including the cantata for Christmas Hodie.
His spouse encouraged him to get back into composing music that he had been unable to work on while his first wife was ill, and she even assisted him with writing the librettos for two of his last choral pieces, including the Christmas cantata Hodie.