For one brief moment in the world of Google searches
last night, Chopin beat shopping. And that’s largely thanks to Asia.
The International Chopin Piano Competition draws a larger crowd than you might think. Here’s the chart of search interest in the competition, the composer and online shopping. As the finals were livestreamed online, people rushed to check out the
performances and see who won.
Poland hosts the competition every five years in honor of one of its most famous composers and Poland generates the most search interest in the competition. But then Japan and Korea show the most search interest in the world behind Poland, far above the U.S. or France.
Within Korea, search interest in the competition even beat out K-Pop boy band Exo.
And no wonder: check out the winning performance from Korea’s
Seong-Jin Cho at the 17-minute mark in the video below.
You can watch all the performances on the
Chopin Institute’s YouTube channel and dive into the history of the competition and into Fryderyk Chopin’s history via
two online exhibitions on the Google Cultural Institute.
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| Detail of gigapixel image of Fantaisie-Impromptu cis-moll [Opus 66] (1833 - 1834), Fryderyk Chopin’s autograph composition dated 1835 (collection: Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina) |
Tune in for
the broadcast of the winners’ performances on October 21, starting at 7pm Central European Time.
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