Herzgewächse (Heart's Foliage, or Foliage of the Heart), Op. 20, is a brief Lied (German art song) that Austrian (and later American) composer Arnold Schoenberg finished in late 1911 in Berlin, during his atonal period. Using the translation by Karl Anton Klammer and Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski, which he modified, Schoenberg set Maurice Maeterlinck's poem "Feuillage du cœur" to music for high soprano, celesta, harmonium, and harp. The art song exemplifies Schoenberg's structurally innovative, modernist harmonic language and expressive word painting.
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