Janez Krstnik Dolar

Joannes Baptista Dolar (also: Dollar, Tollar, Tholarius; Slovene: Janez Krstnik Dolar, * 1620 in Kamnik, † February 13, 1673 in Vienna) was a composer and priest.

Dolar attended the Jesuit College of Ljubljana and in 1639 came as a novice to Vienna. Here he studied philosophy at the University in 1642 and received the minor orders. Between 1645 and 1647 he taught at the Jesuit College of Ljubljana, after which he continued his studies in Vienna and was ordained a priest in 1652.

From 1656 to 1658 he was musical director of the Jesuit College of Ljubljana. After living in Passau and Györ, he was appointed about 1661 to Vienna as director of the Jesuit seminary St. Ignatius and Pankratius and musical director of the convent church at the farm.

He composed masses and Miserere and sonatas and ballets. His compositions have been published in two printed editions: Musicalia varia ( 1665) and Drammata seu Miserere mei Deus ( 1666).