 The Melos Ensemble played in variable instrumentation, flexible enough to perform a wide repertory of pieces.All its members were excellent musicians who held positions in notable orchestras and appeared as soloists.The founding members, namely Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Richard Adeney (flute), and Terence Weil (cello) planned a group of twelve players, a string quintet and a wind quintet with harp and piano, that might be expanded by other players, to perform the great octets by Schubert and Mendelssohn, the septet by Beethoven, Ravel's "Introduction and Allegro" and the "Serenade" by Arnold Schoenberg.