Klaus Miehling was born in 1963 in Stuttgart (Germany) and received a diploma in early music (harpsichord) in 1988 from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. In 1993 he earned his doctorate in musicology, art history and auxiliary sciences of history from the University of Freiburg.
He is the author of several books as well as of numerous essays mostly on historical performance practice.

His work list contains in over 340 opus numbers more than 1.200 compositions, vocal and instrumental, for historical as well as for modern instruments. So far he was a finalist or prize winner with 17 compositions at contests in Belgium, Italy, the USA, Germany, Great Britain, Canada and Spain.

Miehlings works have been published by Goldbach-Verlag, Tonger-Verlag, Moeck-Verlag, Edition Walhall (compositions with recorder, formerly Flautando Manuskriptearchiv), www.lulu.com, www.musicalion.com and www.musicaneo.com. Klaus Miehling lives as a freelance musician and musicologist in Freiburg im Breisgau / Germany.