Some composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Carl Nielsen, continued to write in the traditional four-movement form, while other composers took different approaches: Jean Sibelius' Symphony No. 7, his last, is in one movement, whereas Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 9, Saint Vartanâoriginally op. 80, changed to op. 180âcomposed in 1949â50, is in twenty-four.
Leni Riefenstahl. Helene Bertha Amalie Leni Riefenstahl (German: [ËÊiËfnÌ©ÊtaËl]; 22 August 1902 â 8 September 2003) was a German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress and dancer. Born in 1902, Leni Riefenstahl grew up in Germany with her brother Heinz (1905â1944), who was killed on the Eastern Front in World War II.
Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel dies at 87. Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the life-long voice of millions of Holocaust victims, died on Saturday. He was 87.