Eli5 How did classical music composers memorize their songs back then after creating them?

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Let’s take for example the nocturnes of Chopin.

My preferred one is nocturne n. 20

He certainly didn’t have studio machine to record their sound AFAIK

How then did he memorize and write down everything to remember later?

Did he start playing the piano, write down the notes, continue playing or did he memorize the whole song by heart without any writing process?

Sorry 4 my bad English btw. Not a English native speaker.

EDIT : thanks everyone for the explanation.

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Check out this early medieval hymnals/ easy crude sheet music https://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/307119740_655118215959163_5597536272382496787_n.jpg

The notes are just a Scale https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_(music) and mode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(music)

Are the same in every language and country and also why we sorta know what ancient Roman/Greek music sounded like

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