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Steve Anderson
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Steve Anderson is Editor of the The Independent's Daily Edition app. He also contributes music reviews
![<b>1. Gioachnio Rossini: </b> The Italian composer died of pneumonia on Friday 13 November 1868, aged 76. In Henry Sutherland Edwards' 1869 biography of Rossini, he wrote: 'He [Rossini] was surrounded to the last by admiring friends; and if it be true that, like so many Italians, he regarded Fridays as an unlucky day and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that one Friday 13th of November he died.'](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2013/09/13/12/1-Rossini-GET.jpg?quality=75&width=640&crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&auto=webp)
![<b>1. Gioachnio Rossini: </b> The Italian composer died of pneumonia on Friday 13 November 1868, aged 76. In Henry Sutherland Edwards' 1869 biography of Rossini, he wrote: 'He [Rossini] was surrounded to the last by admiring friends; and if it be true that, like so many Italians, he regarded Fridays as an unlucky day and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that one Friday 13th of November he died.'](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2013/09/13/12/1-Rossini-GET.jpg?quality=75&width=640&auto=webp)
