Einaudi, Classical Music or not?

I travel a lot for work, and when I meet people, I ask quite often about interest in music. When I ask what kind of music someone likes, the answer is often 'everything' and when I ask another question, the extremes Classical Music and Dance music are often mentioned together. One likes apparently both. When I ask what kind of Classical music, the reply has been more than once (in two weeks this time): 'Einaudi'.

So I have done a simple test at home. I have a bunch of kids. One has no interest in any music besides hardcore Classical music (studying mostly Bach himself). Two has a more open style (playing Amelie on piano / French horn) and Three does not have any interest in Classical music (but is surely very talented in music). When I switched on Einaudi, number Three immediately reacted on it. When the number was finished, he asked - without being aware of the experiment - to have the same piece of music again. Nr. Four has only intrest in playing with the knobs of my Nac 72 and the turntable.

Personally, I consider Einaudi more pop music than classical music - and this is no judgement :-)