Take apart a French composer (7)
I believe the answer is:
unravel
'take apart' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with contact as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'a french composer' is the wordplay.
'a french' becomes 'un' ('a' in French).
'composer' becomes 'ravel' (Maurice Ravel).
'un'+'ravel'='UNRAVEL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for unravel that I've seen before include "Come undone; solve" , "Solve the problem" , "Make sense of" , "Disentangle or undo like knitted fabric" , "Undo; begin to collapse" .)