  We show that two cohomological properties of semisimple Lie algebras also
hold for Filippov (n-Lie) algebras, namely, that semisimple n-Lie algebras do
not admit non-trivial central extensions and that they are rigid i.e., cannot
be deformed in Gerstenhaber sense. This result is the analogue of Whitehead's
Lemma for Filippov algebras. A few comments about the n-Leibniz algebras case
are made at the end.
