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.^[1]

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.

• Čabianske ľudové piesne pre mužský zbor (1923)
• Z našich hôr a dolín (1941)

He wrote music for poems of many well-known Slovak poets and it appeared under the name Vám všetkým (1922) and under other names

• Môj spevník
• Slávme slávne...

• Všeobecná náuka o hudbe (General Music Science)

• 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)

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