Ján Valašťan Dolinský was a Slovak

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 composer

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, teacher, journalist, esperantist

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 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

Martin, Slovakia

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, where he simultaneously worked in the Music department of Matica slovenská

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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

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 Božena Slančíková-Timrava
• Adam Ŝangala by Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé
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• translations of works by Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
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  Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (* February 2, 1849 in Vyšný Kubín (Felsőkubin), Austrian Empire, Kingdom of Hungary, † November 8, 1921 in Dolný Kubín, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator and for a short time member...