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"Molly on the Shore" was written in 1907 by Grainger as a birthday gift for his mother.Originally composed for string quartet or string orchestra, this piece was arranged in 1920 for wind band by the composer, as well as for orchestra.Fritz Kreisler set it for violin and piano, but Grainger was thoroughly unimpressed, saying that 
[It] was a thousand times worse than I had fore-weened ((expected)), & I had not fore-weened anything good.