Two publishing houses, MPI Music Production International (Chelyabinsk) and Schott Music Publishers (Mainz) announced a German-Russian cooperation agreement for the Academic Edition of the Complete Works by P.I. Tchaikovsky. The project is said to receive full moral and financial support from the Russian state. Comprising about 120 volumes, this edition will be a big project. The first volumes will be published in 2018.
Since 1993, Schott Music has made great efforts to realize the publication of his complete works with Russian partners. After the first volumes were published, the work was suspended to expand the cooperation and include all relevant Russian institutes on the editorial board.
The new Academic Edition of the Complete Works is a continuation of those previous efforts to publish a modern scientific complete edition. It is published in Russian and English.