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 1892 births 1965 deaths People from Békéscsaba Slovak composers Male composers Linguists from Slovakia Writers of Esperanto literature Slovak Esperantists 20th-century composers 20th-century linguists Slovak schoolteachers Slovak male musicians