Beethoven is my favorite composer, because I like the feeling.

Her favorite composer is Brahms, and that seems significant.

This time it was a recording by Delius, her favorite composer.

Unable to choose between two of her favorite composers, she commissioned both of them.

Here listeners can dwell for a time on a favorite composer, then once again go about their normal musical business.

The group will play works by favorite composers.

His favorite composer was, and still is to this day, Chopin.

For example, it is a context in which the question "Who is your favorite composer?"

"My favorite composer seems to be the one whose musical world I've been immersed in most deeply at any given time."

He has 150 opera recordings, and Verdi is one of his favorite composers.