Have a hard time focusing? Can’t seem to get your work done? Get yourself a composing hut!
Grieg had one. Mahler had several. Perhaps niftiest of all, George Bernard Shaw had a writer’s hut, which he could rotate with the sun.
Yessiree. Get yourself a hut.
Also, stay off the internet.
Happy birthday, Gustav Mahler! Thank you for your productivity.
Here’s a private video tour of Mahler’s Komponierhäuschen in Toblach, where he composed his 9th Symphony:
And Leonard Bernstein conducting the 9th:
PHOTOS: Huts belonging to Grieg (red), Shaw (pictured), and two used by Mahler