Friend initially meets composer outside European resort (4,5)
I believe the answer is:
palm beach
'european resort' is the definition.
'palm beach' can be an answer for 'resort' (Palm Beach is a resort in Florida). I'm unsure of the 'european' bit.
'friend initially meets composer outside' is the wordplay.
'friend' becomes 'pal' (pal can mean a friend).
'initially' says to take the initial letters.
'composer outside' becomes 'beach' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The first letter of 'meets' is 'm'.
'pal'+'m'+'beach'='PALM BEACH'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for palm beach that I've seen before include "US resort" , "Florida resort" , "Florida tourist centre" .)