Although his music was largely ignored for 50 years after his death, Mahler was later regarded as an important forerunner of 20th-century techniques of composition and an acknowledged influence on such composers as Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitry Shostakovich, and Benjamin Britten.Early lifeMahler was the son of an Austrian Jewish tavern keeper living in the Bohemian village of Kali??t?? (German: Kalisc