For more than 40 years my wife and I have been trying to figure out the name of a movie we had seen on late night television in Little Rock in the late 60s.. One of the stations stayed on all night. That was a big thing then. After the last late night show was over, they'd play old movies. This was before we started going together. There was a particular movie that we saw several times. It had a music theme that was built around a piano concerto. It may have been Rachmaninoff or Grieg.

The movie starts with an individual walking in crusty snow around the edge of a house. I remember open windows and a rather large room with a piano. There was probably a fireplace. A young woman is a pianist. She has a boyfriend, but seems to be caught under the spell of a young conductor. He may or may not be evil. I don't think he was. There was just the love conflict. The woman gives up her performing career and eventually has a daughter.

Flash forward. The daughter is now an aspiring pianist. She lives in the same house, and I think the snow scene is repeated. The same problem arises with the conflict between the conductor who seems to be pursuing the daughter and the boyfriend. The girl's father may be dead, or at least he is out of the picture. The girl is playing the same piano concerto her mother did with the same conductor. Between the last two movements, the mother takes the place of her daughter at the piano. The girl and her boyfriend watch from the wings as the conductor turns to see the mother at the piano. He is very pleased, as are the two young lovers.

I would guess the movie was filmed in the late 40s or early fifties. I'm pretty sure it was in black and white. I remember the title being written in script across the screen at the beginning. Does anyone have a clue about this movie? I'd love to get a copy, and surprise my wife.