The Dream of Olwen

The Dream of Olwen is a musical piece composed by Charles Williams and used throughout the popular 1947 movie While I Live. In fact, sometimes the movie itself is called The Dream of Olwen. The movie's plot concerns a young composer struggling with a piano tone-poem she is composing.

Charles Williams (1893 - 1978) was a British composer and conductor, who contributed music to over fifty movies. He composed for many British movies and radio shows, and after the end of World War II, he became the conductor of the Queen's Hall Light Orchestra. Later, he formed his own Concert Orchestra. Much of his movie music came to the big screen as stock music and was therefore uncredited. ("Stock music" is a name given to recorded music that can be licensed to customers for use in movies, television, radio and other media. Often, the music is owned by a production music library, not by the composer.)