Ján Valašťan Dolinský
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Ján Valašťan Dolinský (1892-02-15, Békéscsaba (Békéšská Čaba) - 1965-03-02, 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.
Work:
- folk song collections: Čabianske ľudové piesne pre mužský zbor (1923), Z našich hôr a dolín (1941)
- music for poems of many well-known Slovak poets; 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).