title: Ján Valašťan Dolinský
text: # Ján Valašťan Dolinský
  
  Ján Valašťan Dolinský (15 February 1892, Békéscsaba (Békéšská Čaba) – 2 March 1965, Nitra) was a Slovak composer, teacher, journalist, esperantist and collector of folk songs.
  
  He graduated from a teacher's institute and then worked as a teacher. From 1928 he was a teacher in Martin, where he simultaneously worked in the Music department of Matica slovenská.
  
  ## Works
  
  ### Folk song collections
  
  * Čabianske ľudové piesne pre mužský zbor (1923)
  * Z našich hôr a dolín (1941)
  
  ### Music for poems
  
  He wrote music for poems of many well-known Slovak poets and it appeared under the name Vám všetkým (1922) and under other names
  
  ### Song books
  
  * Môj spevník
  * Slávme slávne...
  
  ### Textbooks
  
  * Všeobecná náuka o hudbe (General Music Science)
  
  ### Esperanto texts
  
  * Mluvnica a slovník slovensko-esperantský (1936; Slovak-Esperanto Grammar and Dictionary; the first Slovak Esperanto textbook)
  * Malý esperantsko slovenský slovník (1948; Small Esperanto-Slovak Dictionary)
  * Učebnica jazyka esperanto (1949; Textbook of Esperanto)
  
  ### Works in Esperanto
  
  His original songs include:
  
  * En aŭtuno
  * Rememoro
  * Profunda okulparo
  
  Translations:
  
  * Je la foiro en Detva by Timrava (Božena Slančíková)
  * Adam Ŝangala by Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé
  * translations of works by Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
  