Who is Maurizio Pollini from The Great Pianists and what is their importance?

Maurizio Pollini began playing at five and debuted at eleven. Pollini was an Italian born in 1942 and played a far-ranging repertoire that included most piano literature. At eighteen in 1960 he won the Chopin Competition in Warsaw that launched his career years later as an immediate success. Pollini performed with "computerlike total control" and became an ideal to young pianists as the greatest living pianist. His was objective and literal, dedicated to an accurate, severe, and impersonal playing of the music that he did not interpret but played as written.