Henri-Guillaume Hamal

Henri-Guillaume Hamal (also Hamalle or Amael; 1685, Liège, nowadays in Belgium – 3 December 1752 (aged 67), Liège) was a Walloon (i.e. a French-speaking native of the Low Countries) musician, musical director and composer. He is the first of the Hamal family of musicians, who were pre-eminent in 18th Century Liège, of whom we have knowledge. He spent his whole life in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire.