Ján Valašťan Dolinský
# 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
