was born on 15 February 1842 in Paris. His father Ludwig Christoph Kling came from Germany and his mother Claudette, neé Rémy, came from France.
At the age of two, Kling moved with his parents from Paris to his father's hometown and grew up in Karlsruhe. A short time later, his mother died and his father remarried. Kling studied horn with Jacob Dorn in Karlsruhe and at the age of 20 became a horn player in the orchestra of the "Grande Théâtre", then Geneva Opera, and also played in the Pepin Orchestra. In 1865 he published a highly valued horn school. In 1866 he became a teacher of music theory, singing (Solfège) and horn at the Conservatoire de musique de Genève and remained in this position until his death.
Klings musical interests were diverse, he worked as an organist in the church in Cologny and at the church Saint-Germain in Geneva. He was head of the orchestras in Geneva and in Evian-les-Bains in France and was the master of "the Corps de Musique de Landwehr - Harmonie officielle de la République and Canton of Geneva (Suisse)". He was also a music and singing teacher at a girls' gymnasium in Geneva.
As a composer he has written works for orchestra, wind orchestra, music theater, church music, vocal music, chamber music and educational works. Kling arranged the horn concertos of Wolfgang Amade Mozart for the modern orchestra and wrote the cadenzas. In addition, he arranged the Concertino for Horn and Orchestra op. 45 by Carl Maria von Weber, Concerto A major for Clarinet and Orchestra KV 622 and Concerto in B Flat Major for Bassoon and Orchestra KV 191 by Mozart.
Henri Kling died on May 2, 1918 in Geneva.
